Welcome to Radio EpiSTEMology!

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:02:29 -0700

Hi There!

We are excited to announce the launch of the Radio EpiSTEMology project, including the STEM Radio Hour, a podcast series on exploring our emerging identities in an ever-changing world of computing and technoscience. Although we might appear to claim an hour of making radio, our episodes are actually much shorter. The word “hour” in the title is representative of our love for long-form radio and our own radio ambitions.

The first episode of the podcast will introduce how three radio-loving and epistemology-loving professors of Learning Sciences and STEM education came together to create this “radio” project. The series will then explore, through our own conversations and those with guests and collaborators, how play, code, science, identity and public education intersect. The series will also feature short narratives created by education students reflecting on their experiences coming to be science and STEM teachers.

We hope you will join us by listening in and letting us know where we can go next.

With love,

The Radio EpiSTEMology team, with

Pratim Sengupta, Marie-Claire Shanahan & Beaumie Kim

Pre-service Podcasting - Radio EpiSTEMology

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:07:04 -0700

STEM teacher education isn't just about learning how to create classroom activities and assessments. Becoming a STEM teacher also means finding out who you are in the classroom, what your identity is as a science teacher and as a designer and creator.

This project highlights the work of a group of pre-service teachers studying secondary science education at the Werklund School of Education. During a five-week intensive program, led by experienced radio journalist and podcast producer, Molly Segal, they learned about crafting narratives, conducting interviews and editing audio landscapes to tell their stories of being and becoming STEM teachers.

Descriptions of their final projects, including links to their podcasts are here. Their thoughtful and creative stories will also be shared in the inaugural episodes of our Radio EpiSTEMology podcast: the STEM Radio hour.

- The Radio EpiSTEMology team